laxe

See also: laxé

Galician

Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe dos Carballos ("flat stone of the oaks")

Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe das Rodas ("flat stone of the wheels")

Alternative forms

• las, laas, laxa

Etymology

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Compare Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaʃe̝/

Noun

laxe f (plural laxes)

1. flagstone; slab

   Synonyms: lastra, lousa

2. flat river pebble

   Synonym: callao

3. flat rocky outcrop

   Synonym: lastra

4. semi-submerged rock; reef

   Synonym: con

Derived terms

• Laiosa
• Lage
• Laña
• Lañas
• Laxas
• Laxe
• Laxedo
• Laxes
• laxedo
• laxeira
• laxento
• Laxielas
• Laxosa
• Laxoso

Descendants

• → Spanish: laja

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lagia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “lage-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “laxe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “laxe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “laxe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

German

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Adjective

laxe

1. inflection of lax:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adverb

laxē (comparative laxius, superlative laxissimē)

1. widely, spaciously
2. loosely, freely
3. (of time) long, amply

Related terms

• laxāmentum
• laxitās
• laxō
• laxus

References

• “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laxe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

laxe

1. inflection of laxar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative